Magnificat for 5 voices. Late 16th century engraved picture-motet bildmottet

by C. Visscher after Jan Sadeler the elder 1550-1600 , based

$2,200 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Oblong quarto. 1 leaf ca. 05 x 288 mm .A representation of the Magnificat, with the Virgin Mary in the center surrounded by four angels playing viols, a flute, and a cornetto, with two additional singing angels on either side holding large carelles erasable slate tablets on which are printed the complete five-voice setting text and music of Verdonck's Magnificat, with the altus and bassus part on the left carelle, the superius and tenor canon in diapason on the right.

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